Neighbours star Ian Smith reveals he has terminal cancer
Getty Images Neighbours actor Ian Smith, who plays Harold Bishop on the Australian soap, has announced he is leaving the show after revealing he has terminal cancer. The 86-year-old told Australia’s 10 News First programme he had pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma, a rare form of lung cancer. “I found out a few months back that I […]
The family that froze to death a world away from home
BBC The night Vaishaliben Patel, her husband Jagdish and their two children set out for the US-Canadian border they dressed in new heavy winter coats and snow boots. Temperatures where they walked, in Emerson, Manitoba, had dropped more than 35 degrees Celsius below freezing. The young family had probably never experienced temperatures that low before. […]
Why women must work harder to move up
Getty Images Some research shows women are held to much higher standards than men, and their leadership potential is generally overlooked, even when highly qualified (Credit: Getty Images) When ‘potential’ is seen as crucial to moving up the career ladder, women seem to lose out. Why? In her 2013 book Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl […]
Female-voice AI reinforces bias, says UN report
BBC Most smart-speaker assistants have a female voice AI-powered voice assistants with female voices are perpetuating harmful gender biases, according to a UN study. These female helpers are portrayed as “obliging and eager to please”, reinforcing the idea that women are “subservient”, it finds. Particularly worrying, it says, is how they often give “deflecting, lacklustre […]
How The Good Place star got so lucky
Justin Lubin/NBC Jameela Jamil stars as Tahana Al-Jamil in the US comedy set in the afterlife Jameela Jamil is in a good place right now. Well, she is – quite literally – in The Good Place, the hit sitcom set in the afterlife that’s just reached the UK. Her major role as Tahani Al-Jamil in […]
Coventry schoolboy stars in CBeebies programme
An eight-year-old boy from Earlsdon, is starring in the CBeebies programme, I Can Do It, You Can Too. The show, which sees children pass on a skill they have learnt to other children, was Caleb’s first television appearance. In the episode, avid squash player Zoya taught him how to play the sport. Caleb said he […]
Travellers ‘devastated’ over French restrictions
BBC Anna Baldwin wanted to take her two boys to Disneyland as a Christmas surprise The BBC talked to holidaymakers and hoteliers about the effects the tighter restrictions will have on them. Mum of two Anna Baldwin had planned to take her two boys to Disneyland as a Christmas surprise. “I’m very upset about the […]
The women who left their jobs to code
Getty Images “I never considered myself as someone who could work in tech,” says teacher-turned-coder Jessica Gilbert. It is sentiment that many women identify with – and something backed up by statistics. Studies show that women are less likely to work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) than men. However, some are beginning to […]
‘Why I made a film for £5,000’
Olivier Assoua Olivier Assoua’s first feature film was shot on a shoestring budget in the small Cameroonian town where he was born. As he tells the BBC, the low cost ensured the movie got made – and this is why his long-held dream is set to be realised when it is released in the coming […]
Brain implants help paralysed man to walk again
Watch Gert-Jan Oskam walk again A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life. Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man, was paralysed in a cycling accident 12 years ago. The electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to […]